Sunday, October 23, 2011

About 130 arrested at Occupy Chicago protest (Reuters)

About 130 arrested at Occupy Chicago protest (Reuters)

About 130 arrested at Occupy Chicago protest (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 03:04 PM PDT

Reuters - About 130 protesters were arrested at an Occupy Chicago demonstration early Sunday after they erected tents and refused to leave a park next to Lake Michigan after its closing time, police said.

Fort Worth shooting leaves one dead, seven injured (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Reuters - One person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting early Sunday at a home in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.

Five killed in wrong-way crash on Michigan freeway (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 10:17 AM PDT

Reuters - A driver going the wrong way on a suburban Detroit freeway early Sunday slammed into another vehicle, and both burst into flames killing all five people involved, Michigan state police said.

Obama: Libyans can celebrate 'new era of promise' (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 12:16 PM PDT

A man photographs the body of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on a mattress in a commercial freezer at a shopping center in Misrata, Libya, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. A military spokesman says Libya's transitional government will declare liberation on Sunday after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime leader Gadhafi. (AP Photo/David Sperry)AP - President Barack Obama hailed the declaration of freedom in Libya on Sunday, saying "a new era of promise" is under way in the African nation. He also urged its new leaders to turn their attention to the political transition ahead.

Occupy Chicago: 130 arrested in city park protest (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:51 AM PDT

Protesters prepare to be arrested during an Occupy Chicago march and protest at Grant Park in Chicago, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.

AG Holder: Some in Alabama ignoring immigrant past (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Rev. Calvin Woods laughs as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a remembrance service for the late Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Family and friends gathered with dignitaries including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to remember the life and legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth who died Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Jeff Roberts)AP - When a little-known black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham trying to start a movement, but nobody was paying attention.

After an emotional start, science takes over trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Dr. Conrad Murray sits in a courtroom during his involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Pool)AP - While the defense was on the verge of its counter attack in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, the prosecution dramatically shifted the focus from personalities to science — its most powerful weapon in the courtroom battle..

Torch cams to give masses views from Lady Liberty (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:13 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by EarthCam, the Statue of Liberty's torch glows against the evening sky in New York Harbor in New York. Five torch cams will be switched on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, during a ceremony to commemorate the statue’s dedication. The five cameras, which will be on 24 hours, 7 days a week, were donated to the National Park Service by Earthcam Inc., a New Jersey-based company that manages a network of webcams around the world. (AP Photo/EarthCam)AP - Give me your tired, your poor — your Internet-connected masses yearning to see. Lady Liberty is getting high-tech gifts for her 125th birthday: webcams on her torch that will let viewers gaze out at New York Harbor and read the tablet in her hands or see visitors on the grounds of the island below in real time.

'Miracle' tornado survivor denied workers' comp (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2011 file photo, Mark Lindquist, of Joplin, Mo., is embraced by his sisters Vehrlene Crosswhite, left, and Linda Baldwin just before being released from the Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon, Mo. By all accounts, Lindquist is a hero, an underpaid social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. But heroism doesn't pay the bills, not when the tornado's 200 mph winds tossed Lindquist nearly a block, broke every rib, obliterated his shoulder, knocked out most of his teeth and put him in a coma for three months. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, T. Rob Brown, File)AP - By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, an underpaid social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. Both houses of the Missouri legislature honored Lindquist, the Senate resolution calling him "a true hero and inspiration to others."

Declining numbers of blacks seen in math, science (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:41 AM PDT

AP - With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren't more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math — the still-hiring careers known as STEM?

AP Essay: Leaders, once mythic, reduced in death (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image made from amateur video provided by the Libya Youth Movement and filmed on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, Moammar Gadhafi, center, is surrounded by Libyan fighters in Sirte, Libya. Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Liberia's Samuel Doe, Benito Mussolini and, now, Gadhafi. No matter how much a powerful human being builds up a cult of personality in life, when an undignified death arrives — the moments before it and the hours afterward — the incontrovertible reality is hard to avoid: We are, in the end, merely lumps of flesh. What's different today is that sometimes the world gets to see it. (AP Photo/Libya Youth Movement via APTN, File)AP - It may be true, it may be myth. But in 1967, when Che Guevara faced the Bolivian army sergeant who was about to execute him, history records the legendary revolutionary's final words like this: "Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

Clinton to Iran: Don't misread departure from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks to the international media during her visit to a hospital in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Clinton is at the tail end of a weeklong, seven-nation overseas trip that has already taken her to Malta, Libya, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Iran should not misread the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as affecting the U.S. commitment to the fledgling democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.

Religion claims its place in Occupy Wall Street (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:12 PM PDT

In this Oct. 21, 2011 photo, Bilal Moran, standing, prays with others during Jummah at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, in New York. The Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter and the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York hosted Friday prayer at Occupy Wall Street. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy.

Con artist who helped Google probe to be sentenced (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 10:18 AM PDT

AP - A massive federal investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million this year to settle criminal claims over its advertising began with the 2008 arrest of a jet-setting career con artist, who took federal agents in Rhode Island into the underground world of peddling pills online.

New White House usher brings Jamaican charm (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Angella Reid is photographed in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Washington. Next month, Reid becomes White House chief usher, only the ninth person to hold the job and the first woman in the position. She replaces retired Rear Adm. Stephen Rochon, who moved to the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Angella Reid was fixing Christmas dinner when the phone rang. It was her boss at Jamaica's Half Moon resort calling to say that a key staff member hadn't showed up for work and Reid needed to fill in.

Mountain Jesus statue could lose its lease (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:16 PM PDT

AP - A statue of Jesus on U.S. Forest Service land in the mountains over a Montana ski resort faces potential eviction amid an argument over the separation of church and state.

SF uses complex rank-vote system in mayoral race (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, interim San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, left, poses with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan in San Francisco. Lee, who insists he had no political ambitions before being appointed interim mayor, said one of the first things he did after he decided to run was consult Quan about the ranked choice voting system. Her best advice was to run a positive campaign to appeal to the broadest base, ensuring he earns plenty of second and third place votes. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Karla Jones knows that voting in the upcoming election for San Francisco mayor won't be as simple as completing the arrow next to one name. She'll have to pick a first, second and third-choice candidate.
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